World Poetry is proud to announce that poet and host Elaine Woo will be receiving a World Poetry Empowered Poet Award on October 19th at 1:40 pm at room 7000, SFU downtown. Reservations only. For more information: 604-526-4729 or ariadnes@uniserve.com
Elaine Woo is the author of the poetry collection Cycling with the Dragon (Nightwood Editions). She is the proud recipient of a 2014 World Poetry Empowered Poet award. Elaine contributed to Shy: An Anthology which won an IPPY (Independent Book Publisher’s) silver medal in 2014. Her art song collaboration, “Night-time Symphony”, with Daniel Marshall won a Boston Metro Opera festival prize in 2013. She contributed to V6A: Writing from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside which was a finalist for the City of Vancouver’s Book Award in 2012. Her work is in carte blanche, Arc Poetry Magazine, The Enpipe Line, Megaphone Magazine, Ricepaper, West Coast Line, and many international publications.